Sagi Schaefer

States of Division: Borders and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrating local, regional, and national perspectives, this volume employs multiple historical and social frameworks to analyse the division of Germany and the development of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Schaefer explains how and why the border evolved and how it impacted regional and national culture, identity, and sense of community.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672387
• ISBN-10: 0199672385
• Artikelnr.: 41863959

Autorenporträt

Sagi Schaefer grew up in Israel, where he also studied for his first and second degrees. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University in 2011 under the supervision of professor Volker R. Berghahn. Since 2012, he has been teaching modern European history at Tel Aviv University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: DMarkation: The Division of German Economy and the Emergence of
the Inter-German Border 1945-1952
* 2: Bounding the Land: Border Formation and Land Ownership, 1952-3
* 3: The Boundaries of Exclusive Representation: The Inter-German Cold
War and Division
* 4: For Land or Country? Frontier Land and Division, 1952-1969
* 5: Divide and Rule: the Openly Negotiated Border and its Demise
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index